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These typical cases represent violations of one of medicine's sacred trusts: the patient's right to privacy. Under a credo that goes back to the Hippocratic oath, a physician is required to keep silent about what he is told or learns of a patient's condition. But lately the tradition is being more honored in the breach...
...their understanding of Muhammad's succession. The Prophet left no generally recognized instructions on how the leadership of Islam would be settled after his death. The Sunnis believe that its leader should be nominated by representatives of the community and confirmed by a general oath of allegiance. Shi'ites contend that Muhammad's spiritual authority was passed on to his cousin and son-in-law, 'Ah', and certain of his direct descendants who were known as Imams. Most Iranian Shi'ites believe that' Ali's twelfth successor, who disappeared mysteriously...
KAMPALA, Uganda--Uganda's new president, Yusufu Lule, took the oath of office yesterday and asked citizens to help "erase the traces of eight years of Idi Amin...
...fifties Levenson, like Liang, found himself caught in an objectionable political current that swept him along against his will. His association at Harvard with Fairbank, then suspected by the McCarran Committee of having something to do with Communists at home and abroad, aroused the suspicion of California's loyalty-oath-bearing legislators that Levenson, too, might harbor secret Communist sympathies. Further outcry arose after Levenson's first interview with the University of California in 1949, when he is supposed to have answered the question "How did the United States lose China?" by responding, "I never knew that we owned China...
More rankling still is the recent perception of male psychiatrists as sexual exploiters of their women patients. Though such behavior is clearly a violation of the Freudian ethic, which forbids any social contact between patient and doctor, to say nothing of the Hippocratic oath, there is clearly some fire behind the smoke. In Florida alone, nine psychiatrists last year were charged with sexual misconduct during therapy; in a recent poll of 500 psychiatrists, a medical journal found that a surprising 19% said that they approved of doctor-patient sex under some circumstances. The intimate relationships in therapy obviously make both...